Musical (2013)
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Book and lyrics by Lisa Kron
Based on the graphic novel by
Alison Bechdel
Directed by Paul Daigneault
Musical Direction by Matthew Stern
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
October 19 – November 24, 2018
A nicely produced version of the Broadway hit based on a graphic novel about growing up gay in a household with a gay father who is in a heterosexual marriage.
Musicals
The Kiss Of The Spider Woman
Musical (1993)
Book by Terrence McNally
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
based on the novel by Manuel Puig
Directed and choreographed by Rachel Bertone
Music Director: Dan Rodriguez
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area
August 31 – October 7, 2018
A webful of wonderful performances in the musical based on the celebrated novel about two Argentinian prisoners, one of whom is a political activist, and one of whom is gay and has an obsession with movies.
The Black Clown
Musical, Play, Performance (2018)
Adapted from
Langston Hughes’ poem
by Davóne Tines and
Michael Schachter
Music by Michael Schachter
Directed by Zack Winokur
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
August 31 – September 23, 2018
Featuring Davóne Tines
An exceedingly well crafted and composed, inventively staged, beautifully sung, and brilliantly choreographed adaptation of the poem by Langston Hughes.
Moulin Rouge! (The Musical)
Musical (2018)
Book by John Logan based on the 2001 Twentieth Century Fox motion picture directed by Baz Luhrmann
Directed by Alex Timbers
Emerson Colonial Theatre
Boston
Through August 19, 2018
With Karen Olivo, Aaron Tveit, Danny Burstein
An over-the-top staged musical extravaganza based on the over-the-top 2001 cinematic extravaganza by Baz Luhrmann.
An American in Paris
Musical (2015)
Music by George Gershwin
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Book by Craig Lucas
Inspired by the film
An American in Paris (1951)
Director and Choreographer:
Jeffry Denman
Ogunquit Playhouse
Ogunquit, Maine
July 11 – August 4, 2018
A superlative production of the newly adapted musical based on the classic 1951 film inspired by George Gershwin’s 1928 orchestral piece inspired by his time in Paris in the late 1920s.